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You just stated the most common FPS as examples.
Playing FPS on a console is like driving a Kettcar on the playground pretending to run your Porsche over the Autobahn.

Also as PC Master-race you have a much wider and intellectually more stimulating variety of games to choose from.
Others already mentioned, a budget PC can be had for a budget.

There are also a couple of simple tricks to getting a satisfactory yet affordable PC:

DO NOT buy the latest "best" flatscreen with ultra-super-duper HD resolution, but DVI is a must. If you can get a good screen from the earlier generation, something below 1920, then go for it.

Get an SSD at all cost next to your normal HDD!
It´s the future, now. Well worth the price you pay, and the prices have gone way down by now.

Don´t bother with AMD CPUs. ALL of the current ones are sh!te.

Intel i7 is overpriced, i5 is perfectly enough.
8GB main memory is well enough too.

GPU in the 200-300$/€ range is best value for money.
Below 200 is crapware for useless cheap marketing "gaming" rigs and above 300 is for wankers or people that were dumb enough to buy aforementioned stupid-resolution screens.

You can look for builds online that will tell you exactly what you need to buy, and how the build will preform. Assembling the parts is easy, unless you happen to be a complete idiot, everything has a hole it's supposed to fit in, just like one of those baby toys.

There are plenty of guides around the internet and even here on fj to make gaming pcs on a budget. Games only require high end tech if you want to run battlefield on 1080 with ultra graphics at 60 FPS.

You just stated the most common FPS as examples.
Playing FPS on a console is like driving a Kettcar on the playground pretending to run your Porsche over the Autobahn.

Also as PC Master-race you have a much wider and intellectually more stimulating variety of games to choose from.
Others already mentioned, a budget PC can be had for a budget.

There are also a couple of simple tricks to getting a satisfactory yet affordable PC:

DO NOT buy the latest "best" flatscreen with ultra-super-duper HD resolution, but DVI is a must. If you can get a good screen from the earlier generation, something below 1920, then go for it.

Get an SSD at all cost next to your normal HDD!
It´s the future, now. Well worth the price you pay, and the prices have gone way down by now.

Don´t bother with AMD CPUs. ALL of the current ones are sh!te.

Intel i7 is overpriced, i5 is perfectly enough.
8GB main memory is well enough too.

GPU in the 200-300$/€ range is best value for money.
Below 200 is crapware for useless cheap marketing "gaming" rigs and above 300 is for wankers or people that were dumb enough to buy aforementioned stupid-resolution screens.